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• February 06, 2025 06 Feb'25

  Data maturity survey finds a quarter of organisations with no strategy

  One quarter of organisations surveyed for the third Carruthers and Jackson Data Maturity Index found to have no data strategy as they increase artificial intelligence engagement

• February 05, 2025 05 Feb'25

  MoD set to develop £50m data analytics platform with Kainos

  The Ministry of Defence has chosen IT services provider Kainos to develop its £50m data analytics platform across all armed services, over a three-year programme

• January 30, 2025 30 Jan'25

  ServiceNow vaunts agentic AI and announces 22% annual revenue growth

  ServiceNow has declared full-year revenue close to $11bn, representing 22% year-on-year growth, as it announces a battery of agentic AI product updates

• January 24, 2025 24 Jan'25

  High Court: Sky Betting ‘parasitic’ in targeting problem gambler

  UK High Court rules that Sky Betting acted unlawfully after breaching a customer’s data protection rights when it obtained his personal data through cookies and used it to profile him for the purposes of direct marketing, despite his ‘impaired’ ...

• January 21, 2025 21 Jan'25

  Kearney, Futurum: Big enterprise CEOs make AI core to future

  According to research from management consultancy Kearney and analyst firm Futurum, big company CEOs are buying into AI hopes and dreams, with a dash of prudence

• January 08, 2025 08 Jan'25

  Software AG shrinks with sale of Alfabet and Cumulocity

  Software AG, Germany’s number two business software company, after SAP, has announced the latest turn in its shrinkage under the umbrella of private equity group Silver Lake

• December 17, 2024 17 Dec'24

  Ofcom publishes Illegal Harms Codes of Practice

  The codes of practice and guidance from Ofcom outline the steps online services providers can take to protect their users from illegal harms

• November 22, 2024 22 Nov'24

  Qlik expands cloud footprint to India

  The data analytics and business intelligence software supplier is bolstering its presence in Asia-Pacific with a cloud region in India

• October 31, 2024 31 Oct'24

  Interview: Niall Robinson, head of product innovation, Met Office

  Weather and climate data is hugely valuable to government and businesses – and the Met Office is finding ways to innovate with data to deliver improved products and services

• September 23, 2024 23 Sep'24

  Metro Bank outsources IT to Infosys to cut costs and digitally transform

  Indian IT services giant taken on to support Metro Bank’s digital transformation in multi-year deal

• September 18, 2024 18 Sep'24

  Dreamforce 24: Salesforce taps Nvidia to power Agentforce

  At Dreamforce in San Francisco, Salesforce and Nvidia detail some of the tech that will power the software giant's newly launched Agentforce service

• September 18, 2024 18 Sep'24

  Public digital transformation will be challenged by austerity

  Public sector and IT industry figures gathered at TechUK’s 10th annual Building the Smarter State event discussed how Labour’s ‘mission-driven’ policy approach can drive digital transformation efforts in the context of fresh austerity measures

• September 18, 2024 18 Sep'24

  Dreamforce 2024: Salesforce calls on customers to flesh out AI vision

  A stream of customers helped Salesforce make the case for its Agentforce artificial intelligence offering on the opening day of the annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco

• August 21, 2024 21 Aug'24

  Wells Fargo bank turns to AI to help families settle estates after a death

  Wells Fargo bank is winning customers after using business automation software and artificial intelligence to help people manage the estates of relatives following a bereavement

• July 31, 2024 31 Jul'24

  Court overturns Appian’s $2bn trade secrets award against Pegasystems

  Business process management software suppliers Pegasystems and Appian head for retrial after a judge finds flaws in trade secrets trial

• July 18, 2024 18 Jul'24

  DHSC ramps up departmental investment in data scientists

  The Department of Health and Social Care is revealed to be the latest government entity to have invested in building out its data science capabilities

• June 27, 2024 27 Jun'24

  IT giant Atos faces collapse if restructuring talks fail

  French IT giant Atos is facing financial problems that could affect the ability of its UK arm to deliver key government contracts, including those related to NHS records in hospitals

• June 20, 2024 20 Jun'24

  Bupa turns to data to provide personalised health services

  Private healthcare provider Bupa says a project to deploy business process automation is bringing it closer to APAC customers

• June 12, 2024 12 Jun'24

  Case study: BT rolls out Amazon’s generative AI developer tool to more coders

  Amazon Q Developer tool has helped the telecoms giant write 200,000 lines of code

• June 07, 2024 07 Jun'24

  HP loses in US fraud case against Autonomy's Mike Lynch

  Autonomy founder cleared of fraud in US trial, following on from HP's $5bn write-down after tts acquisition of the data discovery firm

• June 03, 2024 03 Jun'24

  Uktech50 2024: The longlist of the UK’s influential tech leaders

  UKtech50 received a record-breaking 434 nominations for the 2024 list. Unfortunately, there wasn’t space for everyone in the top 50, and as you can see for yourself in this year’s longlist, it was a difficult decision for the judges

• May 22, 2024 22 May'24

  AI Seoul Summit: 27 nations and EU to set red lines on AI risk

  The countries will now work together to identify thresholds at which the risks presented by an AI model or system would be unacceptable without safeguards in place, as well as develop interoperable safety testing regimes for the technology

• May 14, 2024 14 May'24

  NetApp upgrades AFF all-flash as it targets AI storage

  New AFF arrays offer performance boost for artificial intelligence, while NetApp trumpets its advantages as a provider of sustainable and intelligent infrastructure for all kinds of workloads

• May 09, 2024 09 May'24

  Ofcom publishes draft online child safety rules for tech firms

  In the draft codes, Ofcom calls on technology firms to use ‘robust’ age-checking and content moderation systems to keep harmful material away from children online

• May 08, 2024 08 May'24

  Huawei launches exabyte-scale OceanStor A800 at AI workloads

  Chinese storage array maker announces high-performance NAS that can build out to clusters in excess of 1 exabyte, plus NVMe flash drives of 128TB coming to market next year

• April 29, 2024 29 Apr'24

  Case study: Seeing clearly with data at Specsavers

  Helen Mannion, director of global data and business transformation at high street opticians firm Specsavers, opens up about the importance of data to the organisation

• April 16, 2024 16 Apr'24

  CW Innovation Awards: Gleaning data insights with AI

  Hong Kong-based Citic Telecom CPC has built a data platform that leverages large language models to generate insights and speed up data retrieval and analysis

• April 16, 2024 16 Apr'24

  Why Salesforce needs a data management platform

  There are reports that Salesforce is looking to acquire Informatica, but such a move needs to fit with its AI and GenAI strategy

• April 15, 2024 15 Apr'24

  Quickwit claims big advantage in log file search and index

  When the logs are the data: Startup Quickwit claims late entrant advantage in log file search and index with bigger datasets and better analytics on reduced infrastructure

• April 11, 2024 11 Apr'24

  AI skills gap blocking public sector take-up

  A Salesforce report claims that a lack of skills in artificial intelligence is preventing effective take-up of generative AI to enhance frontline citizen services across the public sector

• April 11, 2024 11 Apr'24

  How GenAI use is evolving for Google Cloud customers

  With more than one million developers now using Google Cloud’s generative AI systems to power their tools, Google customers have gone beyond experimentation and are now building their own agents

• April 10, 2024 10 Apr'24

  Borussia Dortmund nets operational gains with Wi-Fi 6E

  Cloud networking provider selected to deploy Wi-Fi 6E and analytic services at Germany’s largest football stadium to ensure what is claimed to be ‘unparalleled’ fan experience and optimised matchday operations

• April 10, 2024 10 Apr'24

  Salesforce helps customers establish bug bounty programmes

  Salesforce has added new learning content to its Trailhead platform designed to help customers develop their own bug bounty programmes

• March 28, 2024 28 Mar'24

  HM Treasury builds out its data science team

  Team of data scientists expands as Treasury looks to drive ‘data transformation’ across department

• March 27, 2024 27 Mar'24

  Generative AI: Databricks unveils open source large language model

  Enterprise customers are shifting to open source options to build customised generative AI tools using their own data, says Databricks

• March 06, 2024 06 Mar'24

  Interview: How a fundraiser became more data-savvy

  We speak to a fundraiser in the charity sector about how an apprenticeship in data analytics has given her Excel, PowerBI and Power Query skills

• February 20, 2024 20 Feb'24

  Uber CEO denies pricing algorithm uses ‘behavioural patterns’

  Uber workers are concerned about what data is being used by the company’s algorithm to set variable pay and pricing levels after CEO Dara Khosrowshahi admits to using drivers’ ‘behavioural patterns’

• January 30, 2024 30 Jan'24

  Oracle to fine-tune AI for the enterprise

  Oracle AI developments aim to blend enterprise data and LLMs across its technology stack and SaaS portfolio

• January 23, 2024 23 Jan'24

  UN chief blasts AI companies for reckless pursuit of profit

  The United Nations general secretary has blasted technology companies and governments for pursuing their own narrow interests in artificial intelligence without any consideration of the common good, as part of wider call to reform global governance

• January 02, 2024 02 Jan'24

  Qualtrics supports Dow digital transformation

  How US-based materials science company has used analytics tools from Qualtrics to target improvements to customer experience

• December 29, 2023 29 Dec'23

  Top 10 AI regulation stories of 2023

  From the UK government’s publication of its long-awaited AI whitepaper to its convening of the world’s first AI Safety Summit, here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 AI regulation stories of 2023

• December 28, 2023 28 Dec'23

  Top 10 technology and ethics stories of 2023

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 technology and ethics stories of 2023

• December 27, 2023 27 Dec'23

  Top 10 business applications stories of 2023

  Generative AI has become unavoidable for business applications suppliers. C-level executives offer insights here, while the fundamentals of user enterprise software strategy remain visible beneath the AI froth

• December 19, 2023 19 Dec'23

  Top 10 information management stories of 2023

  Generative AI was inescapable as the leading theme of the information management stories of 2023 gathered here. But also selected are pieces about data and healthcare, and the inexorable rise of the CDO

• November 20, 2023 20 Nov'23

  NHS England hits 90% target for electronic patient records

  Some 90% of trusts in NHS England have adopted electronic patient records in hospitals, ahead of government schedule

• November 17, 2023 17 Nov'23

  Oracle NetSuite CEO Goldberg: AI a sleeping giant coming to life

  Speaking with Computer Weekly at SuiteWorld, Evan Goldberg, executive vice-president of Oracle NetSuite, discussed how artificial intelligence has emerged from obscurity to be of business moment

• November 17, 2023 17 Nov'23

  Capgemini and Heathrow strike deal to enhance passenger experience

  Capgemini and Heathrow team up to provide development and operations support for the airport’s technology estate

• November 02, 2023 02 Nov'23

  How the UK crime agency repurposed Amazon cloud platform to analyse EncroChat cryptophone data

  UK crime agency repurposed AWS-based analytics platform to triage EncroChat data and identify threats to life in messages sent on encrypted phone network

• October 30, 2023 30 Oct'23

  Devon County digitises with Unit4 ERP

  Unit4 and Embridge Consulting have paired up to help Devon County Council digitise its organisation, data and services

• October 25, 2023 25 Oct'23

  Government-led Smart Data Discovery Challenge launched to stoke innovation

  A government-led coalition has launched an open-call competition for ideas using smart data to help support individuals and small businesses, emulating open banking